Bruce also wrote :Lowlands Of Flanders and My Liverpool Rose. The song is about Bobby Sands from Belfast
who died on hunger strike in May 1981 after 66 days and became M.P for the area on 9 April 1961, not long after
the election the British government introduced a law that stopped prisoners running for election, it must have been a bit
of an embarrassment for Maggie Tatcher to see a hunger striker being elected. Bobby received 30,493 votes. More than 100,000
people attended Bobby Sands funeral.